Malama Honua Charter School

Malama Honua Charter School is a rural-scale elementary campus in Waimanalo, Hawaii, one of the schools within Hawaii Department of Education. The school teaches 170 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Hawaii's public schools average about 438 students each, so Malama Honua Charter School sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

Hawaii Department of Education runs 296 schools in total, collectively educating 167,071 students. Malama Honua Charter School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Malama Honua Charter School records that the most-represented group is Pacific Islander (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 19% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 11% White.

On the resource side, On paper, Malama Honua Charter School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Honolulu County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Honolulu County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,195 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Honolulu County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 111,011 students), Malama Honua Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Blanche Pope Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Malama Honua Charter School.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. Malama Honua Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Malama Honua Charter School's enrollment has grew 65% since 2018, when it stood at 103 (now 170). Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Malama Honua Charter School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.